Org Strategy Week 7 DQR

Week 7 Org Strategy DQ Response

This week, you will review and respond to your peers' posts. Respond to at least two of your peers (providing feedback for peers without any feedback first). Address the following points:

1. Review the visuals posted by your peers and provide your feedback by answering the following questions:

a. Are the visuals complete and accurate, representing all required analyses? Explain.

b. Are their visuals the same as yours? If not, speculate on why there could be differences when you worked with the same data.

2. Review the executive summaries posted, and answer the following questions:

a. Are the executive summaries clear, concise, and complete? Identify at least one strength and one area for improvement for each summary.

b. Do you agree with the findings and recommendations in the summaries? Why or why not?

3. How does your experience with data analysis and working with Tableau compare with that of your peers? Share some tips or pointers that helped you work on your assignment or may help address some challenges your peers faced.

Adam DeVeuve

Hello All,

I have a moderate amount of experience with data visualization and analysis. In my full-time job, I have frequently needed to provide reports to project stakeholders using Power BI to provide them updates and tracking information of current state. I have also in the past used Excel to create graphs and tables that are used to track issue trends so data could be provided to leadership. I found Tableau to be a simple and effective tool to accomplish these goals because of how easy it was to work with the data that was provided.

I believe that if I was to do this assignment a second time, I would spend more time making my visuals more distinct and improving upon both labeling as well as clarity of the relevant data being represented. I believe that if I leveraged Tableau more, then I could have created more visually appealing graphs that present the same data in a cleaner fashion. Overall, I feel that my data presentation was good, but could be improved to make understanding easier for a viewer.

See Executive Summary attached

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Erin Perry

I have worked with visuals in my position as Director of a department. Typically, the visuals are provided for presentations to senior leadership as a snapshot of performance overall; that is, I have been able to gather our data to show whether we are meeting our goals, what our outstanding metrics are, and how our budget is faring. I have always used Excel to do this, sometimes more easily than others. For example, if my data is easily captured in Excel, or provided all ready to go, I'm fairly adept at creating a pivot table and resulting graphics within Excel. On the other hand, if the data is not ready-made in Excel, I find I have to think through my numbers, add them to a spreadsheet, or create some kind of alternative visual for the “squishier” data, such as qualitative responses in a survey.

I did find the Tableau environment tricky at first, but once I saw that it was essentially creating pivot tables, I found it easy to use. I like that it generated the graphic I needed right there on the screen, and in a way that was easy to screen-capture and use in a document or PowerPoint. I also found the data set itself interesting, and found myself wondering about my own workplace environment, and how my team would respond to similar questions. Although the lesson was ostensibly about learning Tableau, I found the ideas generated by the information itself even more interesting and valuable. I have already started thinking about how to measure my own team's stress, whether gender plays a role, and whether our roles are defined equitably.

See Executive Summary attached

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